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Mathematician. Programmer. Databases. Chronic Illness, Mold, video games "Western" Sydney. Penrith Greens. Was same name on the other platform

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h
Trying to get a post onto Bluesky's Discover feed, let's try this
A (stock) AI image of a solar panel with the label 'real sceince facts page' and the text 

SCIENTISTS IN GERMANY CREATED A SOLAR PANEL THAT
GENERATES INFINITE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY BY USING
GREEN LASERS THAT SHOOT OUT OF IT AND INTO A NEARBY
PLANT FOR SOME REASON
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16h
A waterfront mansion in Sydney’s exclusive suburb of Point Piper just sold at a steep discount, underscoring the dramatic shift underway in Australia’s property market. bloom.bg/4hpq8Ru 📷️: Sotheby's International Realty
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 18h
"I've a coke guy...."
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Heated Rivalry (Series, 2025)
Scens from Shooter McGavin and Happy Gilmore's hidden affair spanning decades. "it's all in the hips"
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 23h
[The Future Fund] bought another 8,000 shares in the Israeli company Elbit Systems, with the value of its holdings in the defence technology and electronics company jumping by another 128 per cent (from $8.6m to $19.7m). Two years ago, the Future Fund only held $1.3m worth of Elbit Systems shares.
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People Want Ducks @peoplewantducks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've scored the EMB himself, Ed Kavalee. Listen to how he landed Get This, his paneling skills, thoughts on Richard, and more. And was "John" really Ash Williams? Tune in to find out. Please subscribe podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p... open.spotify.com/show/25c2RiJ... #peoplewantducks #getthis
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 29/09/2026
The Oz piles straight in before Mehreen has even declared, just to remind her what it'll do to her if she dares.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good of the Albanese govt to give Wilson the ability to cut programs in the NDIS by 99% without having to bother with legislation...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Losers.
Republican Men Are More Likely To Blame Women For Their Problems chart
• Democrat
• Republican
26
24
18 to 29
30 to 49
Source: Civility and Morality Survey, 2025.
50 to 64
65 and older
Survey Center
on American Life
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Three wealthy property developers, including the son of a $400 million nut king, used a network of jointly owned companies to donate $44,100 to the Victorian Liberal Party in a single week, a move which did not breach the state’s donation laws because each payment came from a separate legal entity"
theage.com.au
Three developers, nine companies, $44,000 for the Liberals: Inside a donation law loophole
The jointly run companies all donated to the Liberal Party in the space of a week. Experts say it raises questions about the design of Victoria’s cap on political contributions.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS! Under-16 social media ban heralds return of locally sourced, artisanal teenage bullying buff.ly/NwIQIGk
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Under-16 social media ban heralds return of locally sourced, artisanal teenage bullying
Plans to ban under-16s from social media from March next year have been welcomed by traditionalists who say the move could finally revive Britain’s once-thriving industry of locally sourced, …
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isobel @gynoid74.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026
cartoon with four panels, first one an 80's parent speaks to a small child explaining to 'pick up litter and save the earth, there is a drawing of a dustbin, second panel 90's parent explaining 'recycle and you can save the earth' there is a drawing of a recycle bin, third picture 00's parent explaining 'reduce your carbon footprint and you can save the earth there is a drawing of a bike, fourth panel the 10's parent explains 'completly restructure global economic systems and you may be able to rave a remnant of humanity!, picture of the world burning
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is one of the most inspirational photos i have ever seen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses
The perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two hours from downtown Tokyo. In a few years, they’ll disappear under row-upon-row ...
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Economy is doing ok for some
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026
Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
These data centers are financial poison even if you bought them cheap. The returns are awful, the debt is toxic, the ongoing opex is nasty because of the cost of cooling and the power demands, and 30% gross margins requires near-perfect conditions and constant revenue for 5+ years.
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"One Nation's policy is asking us to doubt the vast volume of evidence that has been collected globally and the conclusions of thousands of climate science experts ... on the basis of a single temperature record." www.tempestsandterawatts.com/p/i-read-one...
tempestsandterawatts.com
I read One Nation’s brain-rot climate policy, so you don’t have to
I set out to uncover what One Nation has planned for Australian climate policy. What I found was far more disturbing.
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe we don't glorify a 12 year old getting brain damage??
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For most of us, the recognisable companies on the blacklist will be Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Motorola Solutions & TripAdviser Link to the UN report on the database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank 👉 docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19
docs.un.org
Document Viewer
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 27/09/2026
Greens Senators have told tech bosses to put their money where their mouths are on AI safeguarding. Meanwhile, interest rates are expected to rise. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/s...
crikey.com.au
Senate inquiry calls on AI bosses to appear after Medicare hack
AI bosses have been told to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to defending against the dangers of developing technologies. Meanwhile, everyone expects an interest rate rise…
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just reflecting on how much criticism was made by conservatives over the last decade about Simon Holmes a Court using some of his money to help communities support candidates they chose (not him) versus this www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Rinehart allegedly tried to help recruit Liberal MP to join One Nation
One Nation's billionaire backer Gina Rinehart allegedly attempted to help recruit a sitting federal Liberal MP at one of her holiday homes.
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s my latest cartoon for @faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-squire...
faroutmagazine.co.uk
David Squires on Danny Boyle's unfortunate use of AI
From 28 Years Later to Trainspotting and the Olympics opening ceremony, Danny Boyle has plenty of credits that have been celebrated over the years.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
““In effect,” says Charlton, “we are creating a new import bill.” Data centres are the ore of the AI industry. Australia needs to do some of the high-value-adding processing of the ore, and that’s the training of models.” lol wut. Cripes. We are stuffed. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Why Australia simply cannot afford to miss this AI wave
For future prosperity and security, and to have any real influence over the big beasts of AI, Australia must convince them to train their models here.
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Skeet from me on Sept 26th at 10:29am

"I'm joining The War Against Catholic Communism on the side of Catholic Communism."
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Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The data centre lobby is sick of trying to ingratiate Australians, so it's switched to insults. Australians can't even create our own protest without copying America. Blah. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US
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Candice N Henry @candicenhenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Greg Sheridan on Insiders says he doesn’t want US AI firms held legally accountable for hacking Australians because then “they won’t come here." Apparently adding AI regulations to keep Australians safe is an act of “self sabotage” 🙄 Absolute bootlicking trash on ABC. #auspol
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
> Mount Fox near Ingham has about 84 residents > Ms Armstrong said she was worried about the impact of the 140-metre turbines on the region's biodiversity, human and environmental health, run-off onto the Great Barrier Reef BUT THE SUGAR CANE FARMING HAS NO RUNOFF YEAH www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
The residents and wind farm on the frontline of Australia's energy wars
Gawara Baya is the largest wind farm to reach construction since Labor introduced a renewables investment scheme. More than 2,000km north of Canberra, residents say net zero is a dream ruining their h...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why fuel prices are pushing $3 a litre. Because Trump has no idea how to end the war he (and Netanyahu) started with Iran. That’s the war that Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all cheered on in February. It’s the war the Greens opposed. The only party that did.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One Nation getting candidates to fund themselves and pay money to the Party has happened before. Candidates should have done ‘their own research’ They are grifters, not a potential party of government www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes
Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/09/2026
do they maybe need someone to play guitar and also shoot fire on top of a truck while being held aloft by some sort of bungee cord, asking for a friend
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Random little investigation I saw that Claude Opus 5.5 can now create quite appealing "science explainer" shorts as one-shot prompt: "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So I wondered where info came from?
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
We have seen and heard a lot of the latter, about trillion dollar AI companies, network states, fascist politics enforced by economic and technical supremacy; about autonomies AI swarms replacing us and enriching their compute masters, about RSI machine gods killing us off.
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Wishing progress to stop was never one of my beliefs. But I do worry. What is our positive vision for having this socio-cultural technology? Because if we do not imagine it, formulate it, if we do not build it, we leave the space for the worst people to entrench their dystopia and unethical vision
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dadmiral hackett @rennemiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
tell me you're desperate to have AI psychosis without telling me
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You do know that shops had these "before" the surcharges, right? And that the surcharges they put on didn't need to relate to the cost of the machine or the transaction? And they also started to put it on EFTPOS as well, which doesn't have a specific surcharge by credit card companies?
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Almost as if it has nothing to do with the laptops 🤔
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Riding his horse from Denver to Cheyenne in 1876, the ornithologist Elliot Coues saw more than a hundred birds killed by flying into a telegraph wire in less than an hour. He's one of the earliest writers to reckon with the toll of the built environment on wildlife.
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brazil bans sports betting and betting advertising, huh, wonder why no other countries, including the ones who lose the most from gambling, consider that
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 24/09/2026
The moment the robot started interacting with myGov systems, it understood the human feeling almost too well. chaser.com.au/general-news...
ChatGPT understands wanting sweet relief of death after interacting with myGov - The Chaser
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A former captain of the Palestinian national women's team held without charge or trial and the Irish national men's team is going to play apartheid Israel? The FAI must boycott these games. #StopTheGames Palestinian footballer who played Bohs stuck in Israeli jail www.ontheditch.com/we-are-livin...
ontheditch.com
Palestinian footballer who played Bohs stuck in Israeli jail
“We are living a nightmare,” her father told The Ditch.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#BREAKING | Egypt's intelligence chief warned Netanyahu ahead of October 7th in September 26, 2023, two weeks before the massacre occured, The Atlantic reports
theatlantic.com
Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Inflatable Plant @inflatableplant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Luv 2 social cohesion
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cha0s @anatolkirichenko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This montage from Deep State perfectly summarises American and Australian "shared values" under their current respective governments #auspol
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